2009-11-21 - 5:45 a.m.
Well things are what they are...the house is a mess, I've already picked up a bucket full of filling from various dog toys, there are dishes in the sink and crap all over the table, the trash needs to be taken out and the kitty litter changed...yup everything normal.
Yesterday, I had to have my car worked on. Last Sunday, the knob that controls the selection of defrost, blow in your face, etc. for the air flow broke...well more precisely the wire (cable if you're a mechanic) that's connected to the knob that controls the vent broke. Anyway I've driven around with no defrosters, not fun, and since Saturn parts are hard to come by, the best they could do was remove part of the dash so I could move what's left of the cable manually using a pair of pliers. They charged me $60 for that. Picked up the car at 11 and headed for Wal=Mart to grocery shop. Asked sis what size turkey she wanted for Thursday...she says 22 pounds. Now there's really only the 2 of us that eat turkey - BIL will eat it but prefers ham and nephew will eat ham over anything if it's there (so long as cold hot dogs are not also offered - kind of reminds me of Gabrielle and her plain noodle kick...hard to believe she's a teenager soon too). So anyway I get to the store and start looking at the turkeys...I had to call sis back and ask her if she realized just how big a 22 pound turkey was. I doubt we could have gotten it in her oven. I got one that's a bit over 14 pounds instead and a 9 pound ham...enough for a good meal and yummy leftovers. I also picked up most of what I could remember for the cornbread dressing. Sis will have to get the stuff for the baked macoroni and deviled eggs. I have to find me a recipe for pumpkin pie. I have several pumpkins in the freezer and I'm not going to buy canned pumpkin to make pie. I will have sis buy either a pie shell or some fridge crust. Guess I'll be plenty busy Wednesday night. I plan on baking the cornbread and putting the dressing together so we just have to bake it Thursday, having the pie done, and probably stuffing eggs. Might even cook the mac so we just have to put that together and bake. I don't want to have to do lots of cooking the day of. I enjoy watching Macy's Parade after Mass and plan to do so.
I've acutally done quite a bit of Christmas shopping though the year. I need to find everything I've bought and get it wrapped and put away. I still don't know about the tree yet since Punkin eats anything within her reach still. I'd really have to hurt her if she chewed up my tree.
It was supposed to rain today...80% according to Ms. Margaret. It's cloudy and I can tell by the aches that it's not far off, but it's not here yet either. It was supposed to start around midnight or so and go all day. So as soon as sis decides to drag her bod out of bed we'll be heading to the grocery. I did mine already because I didn't want to be unloading groceries in the rain. After that she's suppose to come over and help me clean out the back bedroom (the one that's still full of her crap from when they lived with me) so that I can get it turned into the kids' room. Mom and dad got a flatscreen for Christmas and got a blueray with it (really good deal) so I'm getting the old set with DVD and cabinet for that room so the kids can watch movies when they're over. I'm also moving the toys into that room and getting them some sleeping bags...maybe I'll be able to sleep in my bed when they're here. Before they do start spending the night in it though I'm going to have to get night lights for that room and their bathroom. Granson1 asks if I've cleaned and painted his room everything he comes over. Next weekend I'm hoping to be able to say yes.
